LAHORE While the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Saturday rejected the resignation of Firdous Ashiq Awan, former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar categorically denied reports of her quitting the party. I have no plan to quit PPP and any report ...

(WASHINGTON) The Brookings Institution is proud to announce the ninth annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum, convened each year in partnership with the State of Qatar. This year's Forum, from May 29 -31 in Doha, is entitled "New Voices, New Directions" ...

Bollywood actor Salman Khan's tweet opposing the death sentence given to Yakub Memon for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts has intensified an already ongoing debate. Salman spoke his mind at a time when the Indian intelligentsia is divided over the ...

An ambitious Modi with Kashmir on his mind is desperate for a piece of history in South Asia but will Nawaz Sharif let him? Cover Story Professor Ayesha Jalal, author of books as stellar as The State of Martial Rule and Struggle for Pakistan ...

Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon would have never thought that a tweet she posted five months back on her Twitter handle could spur a controversy now. In Februaury 2015, after the India-Pakistan World Cup cricket match, the '90s diva liked and ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan faces opposition from within his party as he welcomes dissidents of the rival parties aiming to strengthen his hold on Punjab. The first voice of course was from his wife Reham Khan who ...

The recent debacle of the ultra-nationalist Zaid Hamid ending up in a Saudi jail, sentenced to receive 1,000 lashes for speaking his mind against the government, has paradoxically backfired on all the jingoistic, undemocratic and bigoted rants by ...

ISLAMABAD - Once omnipresent and always eager to appear before the media, a number of PPP co-chairman's close aides who were also part of the federal cabinet have simply gone missing from the scene in the wake of Asif Ali Zardari's outburst against ...